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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 Enriching the Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following women is interested in jewelry making?
(a) Alice.
(b) Joan.
(c) Johnnetta.
(d) Ellen.

2. Which of the women adopted a daughter named Sarah late in life?
(a) Joan.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Mary.
(d) Alice.

3. What activity brings Mary and Barkev together, closer than they were before they were first married?
(a) Culinary courses.
(b) Child-rearing.
(c) Traveling.
(d) Love making.

4. Which of the following statements does NOT fit into Mary's definition of wisdom?
(a) It is a survival skill.
(b) It is the ability to adapt to new environments.
(c) It can be practiced by everyone, everyday.
(d) It is something you are born with or without.

5. What does Mary compare to "an obese bully"?
(a) Her mother-in-law.
(b) An oven.
(c) An unripe avocado.
(d) The Sunday paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of America did Johnnetta grow up in?

2. What does Bateson describe as a constant riddle?

3. As a child, what did Ellen want to be when she grew up?

4. How was the MIT Alice was very close to killed in New York?

5. Which of the women Mary interviewed is the oldest woman in the book?

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